Conversion’s Founder and Managing Director, Nicole Bates is Australia’s leading expert in sales and management for the meetings and events industry. Driven by a passion to help make meeting and events businesses the best they can be, Nicole founded her first sales consulting business in 2013. Opening Conversion Management in 2016, a business solely focused on sales process and training for the hospitality, meetings and events industry, Nicole and her team work with clients to grab hold of their potential, to convert prospects into clients, and to help restaurant, venues and suppliers transform into profitable powerhouses.

With an uncomparable depth of experience and understanding of the events sales space, the team at Conversion Management is able to intuitively and effortlessly understand the strengths and weaknesses of any event business’ systems and processes. We capitalise on this ability by immersing into client organisations, where we set to work by ‘living’ their processes, enabling our team to identify opportunities to make real improvements to the sales process and procedures, our clients business and bottom lines.

Nicole’s in depth experience in analysing sales data partnered with her ongoing commitment to the art and science of ‘the sales process’ ensures her strategies are always well targeted, aggressive and achievable. Most importantly, she’s proven to help events businesses reap real results.

Having dedicated almost 20 years to strategically building business for Australia's foremost hotels, catering companies and event organisations, Nicole’s track record is more than impressive. She holds a Bachelor of Business in hospitality management and is a highly acclaimed and qualified sales trainer. Nicole runs regular sales training workshops across the country, attracting hundreds of event sales executives, business development managers and the like, who are eager to learn about a targeted approach to sales systems, sales training/coaching, sales management and direct sales.

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